It's good for managed systems. The end query on the user interface is good. You can view lots of charts and graphs.

The dashboard has a nice GUI.

It's a great way to find faults in our systems.

The event management capabilities are great. We can gauge complexity in tracking. We can aggregate multiple transactions in a single account.

There's very good accuracy in processing. 

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus supports legacy protocols like CORBA, Huawei, and other telecom protocols, which I find beneficial. It aids in network performance monitoring and management, although it is compatible only with IBM DB2. Importantly, it effectively monitors various network services.

The most valuable aspects of the solution include:

- Accurate and descriptive presentation of the HW events/alerts 

- Intuitively to use GUI

- Intelligent grouping for discovering correlations and propagating outages

- Identification of the affected services and functionalities (degraded/zero-level services)

- Event/Alert drill-down and statistical reporting capabilities

- Automatic generation of Netcool rule files with MIB Manager using SNMP MIB files

- Web GUI to be used on the field technician's mobile device

- Good system support by the vendor

OMNIbus is valuable for its compatibility and performance, as I haven't encountered any performance issues. It offers functionalities such as deduplication, alarm prioritization, and processing of alarms. Everything is managed through the OMNIbus process, providing a seamless experience.

The availability of a larger talent pool with skills for this solution is one of the biggest points for us because getting people with the right knowledge and experience is very challenging in most environments. Apart from the skills that are available in the market, the biggest plus points for me are the configurability and scalability of the solution, as well as the multi-tenancy of the platform.

Probes are the best feature because they are well written which rarely requires you to write additional rules. These probes monitor activity within your environment.

It is customer-centric. Customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event. There is no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment. We get a good response from customers about this feature and the main architecture of NetCool. 

Its processing is very good. Deduplication and correlation functionalities are good in this solution as compared to other solutions.

A big advantage of NetCool is that it also supports multi-layered protocols. We can receive multiple events from different protocols like UDP, HTTP, and those events can be captured in NetCool. 

The most valuable feature is the event management capability.

The correlation works great.

It is very good if you have any devices that use SNMP.

The monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature.

Very stable tool and good for all types of event integration and automation.

Event Viewer is the most valuable feature as it gives you a complete list of events with the detailed information. Based on its severity, you can predict the issues.

IBM Tivoli Network Manager

It is a user-friendly solution.